- #1 Hatred and Blood
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lia CallanPub: Amos Shade SRL
Windows · Mac
Baptized in Dismay is a psychological horror RPG set in a dystopian 1980s. Nations have turned to isolation and walls to prevent another war. But a curse, or sickness, spreads... consuming people from within and erasing their humanity. Will you endure… or be Baptized in Dismay?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 17%, Party-Based RPG 11.5%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%, Turn-Based Combat 10.2%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%
- #2 Fear & Hunger 2: Termina
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 14,607 reviews2022
Dev: Miro Haverinen
Windows
Median: 8.2 hrsMean: 24.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
F&H 2: Termina is oppressive, relentless and hopeless. A mix of jRPG and Survival Horror. Turn-based combat meets resource management. 3 days to explore the wicked town of Prehevil and find out about its dark secrets. 3 days until the pale and sickly green moon rises at its apex. Termina is upon us!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 15.1%, Dark Fantasy 14.2%, Survival Horror 12.3%, Party-Based RPG 11.5%, JRPG 10.5%
- #3 Dirge of the Scarlet Star
96% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Omnibatsu
Windows
A JRPG and Survival Horror,featuring turn based combat and 12 different playable characters.A day, morning ,afternoon,and evening under the Scarlet Star, to end the insanity,or join it.Dirge of the Scarlet Star is a descent into isolation,madness,and a slow death under the heat of the Scarlet Star.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 15.6%, JRPG 15.1%, RPG 13.4%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Party-Based RPG 13.1%
- #4 The Backworld
95% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Numor GamesPub: Top Hat Studios, Inc.
Windows
Slip between the cracks of reality into a world where danger awaits at every turn. Survive with strategy, battling when necessary or fleeing when the odds are stacked against you. Collect strange items, unlock new abilities, and recruit unique companions. Forge your own path; every choice matters.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 13.6%, Party-Based RPG 12.7%, JRPG 12.7%, Horror 10.3%, Turn-Based Combat 10%
- #5 Woe Reigns Unending
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Joshua SarverPub: n/a
Windows
Lead a cursed party through a ruined world in this grimdark side-scrolling RPG. Build your team, master tactical combat, and unleash forbidden powers to survive an endless parade of nightmares. Decide what, if anything, is worth salvaging from a world that has been reduced to ashes.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 16.3%, Dark Fantasy 15.7%, Turn-Based Combat 14.4%, Party-Based RPG 13%, Horror 8.9%
- #6 Skautfold: Knight's End
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 25 reviews2021
Dev: Steve GalPub: Pugware
Windows
Skautfold: Knight's End is the final chapter in the Skautfold series. Explore the Waltham Industries factory and uncover its dark secrets; with a unique timeline-based RPG battle system, you'll come face-to-face with Eldritch horrors as humanity reaches its final days on Earth...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 17.8%, JRPG 17.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 17.2%, RPG 16.1%, Turn-Based Combat 13.3%
- #7 Look Outside
92% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 12,602 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.8 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27%, Survival Horror 16.2%, Turn-Based Combat 15.1%, RPG 12.7%, Horror 12.7%
- #8 Edge of Madness
93% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: The Yellow Sign
Windows
A Lovecraftian RPG with tactical card-based combat. Uncover dark secrets, face cult and eldritch horrors. Every choice shapes the battle—outplay your enemies or lose yourself to madness.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.7%, Turn-Based Combat 15.2%, Dark Fantasy 13.7%, Horror 9.7%, Psychological Horror 7.5%
- #9 Pharos Light
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Alice Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Pharos Light is a survival horror game inspired by “The Lighthouse” and Lovecraft. Upgrade the Lighthouse with unique equipment, develop the island, and survive the night.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.3%, Survival Horror 13.5%, Dark Fantasy 11.4%, Horror 11.3%, Dark 9.6%
- #10 Fear & Hunger
91% matchVery Positive94% of 21,597 reviews2019
Dev: Miro HaverinenPub: Happy Paintings
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Fear & Hunger is a horror dungeon crawler set in the dark and hopeless dungeons of fear and hunger. The game is a hybrid of survival horror and dungeon crawler genres with its influences ranging from Silent Hill to Nethack. There are roguelike elements to the game as well as a heavy foundation of a j-RPG.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 24.7%, Lovecraftian 14.8%, Horror 10.7%, Turn-Based Combat 9.9%, Violent 8.9%
- #11 RAVENSBURG
89% matchPositive95% of 43 reviews2025
Dev: Lilian Duleroux
Windows
RAVENSBURG is a haunting RPG where you play as a vampire. Here Lovecraftian Horror meets Anime. Liberate a cult-ridden city, uncover mysteries, and fight horrors beyond imagination while befriending attractive companions. Unravel a gothic mansion, and explore the city’s darkest depths.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.8%, Turn-Based Combat 14.7%, Party-Based RPG 11.3%, Dark Fantasy 11.3%, Horror 10.6%
- #12 Remnants Of Isolation
90% matchVery Positive81% of 124 reviews2015
Dev: Team IsolationPub: KOMODO
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight horrific enemies and utilize powerful spell fusions to overcome the cruel fate of mages and see the light of freedom.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 16%, Party-Based RPG 15.5%, Turn-Based Combat 14.9%, JRPG 13.4%, Dark Fantasy 10.6%
- #13 Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones
89% matchMixed66% of 2,511 reviews2019
Dev: Cultic GamesPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.4 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Delve into a role-playing game of horror, loss and madness set in the strange worlds of HP Lovecraft. Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones offers a mix of rich role-playing and turn-based tactical combat, represented in an illustrative visual style. Can you find salvation in a dead world?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.3%, Turn-Based Combat 16.2%, RPG 14.7%, Horror 11.6%, Violent 7%
- #14 Stray Magic
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starlit Castle
Windows
The Everley University of Magic has fallen, but a quest led you here... a mission still waiting to be fulfilled. Explore, fight, recruit and survive as you cross paths with other lost souls. A turn-based JRPG influenced by dungeon crawlers and survival horror.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 19.2%, Party-Based RPG 16.3%, Turn-Based Combat 15.7%, Survival Horror 13.4%, Horror 11.9%
- #15 Antadin DX
87% matchPositive82% of 32 reviews2020
Dev: Red Skald
Windows
A dark jrpg with tough choices that change the story. You play as the last of the antadins, the protector of the queen of your colony. You have to traverse bleak, corrupted caverns, inhabitated by a myriad of different insects. Trying to protect your ward.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 19.8%, Turn-Based Combat 16.5%, Dark Fantasy 15.9%, JRPG 15.7%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #16 Despair Beneath the Sunless Sky
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kyomotions
Windows
A psychological horror RPG blending dark fantasy and mystery. Explore a relentless open world, confront grotesque horrors in turnbased combat, and make irreversible choices. Uncover deep lore and mysteries visible only to those with discerning eyes.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 20.4%, Dark Fantasy 16.5%, Turn-Based Combat 13.4%, JRPG 12.8%, RPG 9.6%
- #17 Hymn to the Earless God
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Starseed Games
Windows
Turn-based RPG from the creator of Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass set on a brutal alien planet. Four unique main characters, four unforgettable stories, four inescapable calamities.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 18%, RPG 16.6%, Party-Based RPG 12.7%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Dark 12.3%
- #18 Echoes of Fear
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: UDG
Windows
Containment has failed. As an amnesiac agent of the Bureau, face uncontained anomalies in a turn-based mystery RPG. Every tactical move and moral judgment creates a lasting echo. Record, research, and survive the consequences. Your judgment is the only shield.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Horror 11.9%, Turn-Based Combat 10.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 9.4%
- #19 Winter Winds
84% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: paintedReality
Windows · Linux
Winter Winds is a grim fantasy RPG where you play as a mute, recently resurrected sadist with the mission to return the missing sun to the sky, with or without the help of an outspoken angel detective.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 22%, Turn-Based Combat 16.9%, JRPG 16.2%, Survival Horror 10.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
- #20 Materialization of memories
84% matchPositive95% of 41 reviews2023
Dev: Amosov VladyslavPub: Causing pleasure
Windows
Materialization of Memories is a Survival Horror game where you can never be sure you are in control of the situation. The materialisation zone has many surprises in store for you.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 18%, Party-Based RPG 13.3%, Survival Horror 13.2%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, JRPG 8.7%
- #21 Vita: The Ember Oracle
83% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Desert Tsunami
Windows
The great city of Pando is crumbling under the weight of a radical prophecy. Follow Sin-Nul, a fire Vita caught between fate and the encroaching zealotry of the Ever Flame. In a world where belief is a weapon, will you be the spark that restores Pando, or the flame that consumes it?
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 19.1%, JRPG 18.4%, Party-Based RPG 17.9%, Dark Fantasy 14.4%, Story Rich 8.9%
- #22 Resonating Cords
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gynura
Windows
Whose will is God's will? Follow the chosen saint in his journey through the Communion, the mysterious process of God's replacement.
Why similar: JRPG 16.2%, Party-Based RPG 16%, Dark Fantasy 15.9%, Turn-Based Combat 13.6%, RPG 10.7%
- #23 Icon
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ArxTec
Windows
A darkness has crept into the rotting marrow of the once glorious Arx Imperium. As the deep places stir and the dead rise from their graves, this ruined world finds itself in need of a hero, a savior, an icon.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 19.9%, Party-Based RPG 18.7%, Dark Fantasy 17.7%, JRPG 17.5%, RPG 10.1%
- #24 Cursed Order
81% matchPositive88% of 41 reviews2024
Dev: AntsFood
Windows
Fight for Astaria's freedom as a revolution army against a kingdom-dominating cult with a bunch of teens in your party!
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 16.6%, Turn-Based Combat 15%, JRPG 13.5%, Dark 10%, Violent 9.9%
- #25 Arcanamals
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hungry Potato Games
Windows
Arcanamals is a narrative-driven, turn-based RPG centered on exploration. Journey across two parallel worlds and restore balance to a corrupt world.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 24.1%, JRPG 22.3%, Turn-Based Combat 19.7%, RPG 11.8%, Turn-Based Tactics 11.6%
- #26 Claustrophobia
81% matchMixed67% of 24 reviews2022
Dev: Sentinel Studios
Windows
Claustrophobia offers a scary and dark horror experience filled with blood boiling moments, first you will have to silently move your way through the darkness, until you can pick up arms and discover the truth. Can you figure out what is hiding in this grueling subterranean facility?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25%, Survival Horror 14.8%, Horror 13.5%, Psychological Horror 11.3%, Dark 10.8%
- #27 Blood Sword
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Prime Games
Windows
An ancient evil returns. A sword lost to legend. A party bound by fate. Forge your legacy in a story-rich RPG of turn-based combat and branching choices, inspired by the classic Blood Sword saga.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 20%, Dark Fantasy 17.3%, Turn-Based Combat 17.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.6%, RPG 9.8%
- #28 Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion
78% matchVery Positive84% of 79 reviews2022
Dev: SezhesPub: Ravenage Games
Windows
Frail Hearts: Versicorae Domlion is an old-school JRPG with a deep and mysterious storyline placed in a fictional dark city of Gris. Explore the story of four troubled souls and kill the abominations that threaten the existence of reality itself.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.9%, Turn-Based Combat 16.7%, JRPG 15%, Dark 10.2%, Horror 10.1%
- #29 Darkest Dungeon® II
77% matchMostly Positive75% of 25,853 reviews2023
Dev: Red Hook Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.3 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.6%, Dark Fantasy 16.7%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.2%, Party-Based RPG 11.6%, Turn-Based Combat 10.5%
- #30 The Consuming Shadow
79% matchVery Positive95% of 421 reviews2015
Dev: Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Consuming Shadow is a procedural survival horror adventure in which you must explore the land, fight your way through randomly-generated dungeons and try to stay sane in your quest to save the world from the invading Ancients.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 46.7%, Survival Horror 15.5%, Violent 10%, Horror 9.3%, Dark 5.4%
- #31 Souls Alive: Origins
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Souls Alive Development
Windows
Souls Alive: Origins is a Lovecraftian survival horror game set in a dark sci-fi future. Explore a world where reality bends, ancient cults return, and Cthulhu stirs once more. With a strong focus on story, atmosphere, and visual detail.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 41%, Survival Horror 17.5%, Horror 13.4%, Story Rich 8.5%, Psychological Horror 7.2%
- #32 NADYR
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LoganMakesGames
Windows
NADYR is a fixed camera, survival horror, party-based RPG.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 22.7%, Survival Horror 15.4%, JRPG 13.7%, Horror 12.2%, Dark 9.4%
- #33 Breath of Fire IV
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 506 reviews2026
Dev: CAPCOM Co., Ltd.
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Master an array of skills and magic to unlock strategic victories in battle as you go head to head with unique enemies using powerful "Dragon Transformations" and combo actions! Follow the intertwining stories of Ryu and Fou-Lu to their thrilling conclusion in this classic RPG adventure.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 21%, JRPG 19.6%, RPG 16.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.2%, Dark Fantasy 11.6%
- #34 DEORUM
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Joyhop Games
Windows
Descend into the forsaken dungeon and fight the horrors in the dark. Gather occult materials, craft nightmarish coins, and settle your debt to the cosmic powers. Obey the Divine Festival.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 19.8%, Dark Fantasy 18.7%, Turn-Based Combat 13.5%, Horror 12.1%, Survival Horror 8.6%
- #35 Zjawa: Bloodstained Soul
76% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Platty Gems
Windows
Zjawa: Bloodstained Soul is a 2D Survival Horror RPG mixing turn-based combat with real-time elements and hand-drawn art, set in 13th century France during a crusade against heresy. Slash, parry, and collect items to survive to see the end, whatever it may be. Find absolution or damnation.
Why similar: Dark Fantasy 15.9%, Turn-Based Combat 15%, Lovecraftian 14.5%, Horror 11.5%, Psychological Horror 9.2%
- #36 Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket
74% matchMixed65% of 60 reviews2025
Dev: CGI LAB GAMES
Windows
In the Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket, you find yourself trapped in a labyrinth of endless, flickering aisles. Unearth dark secrets behind every shelf while evading lurking apparitions and supernatural terrors. Can you survive the haunted corridors and escape before the nightmare consumes?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.1%, Survival Horror 15.3%, Horror 14.3%, Dark 12.3%, Psychological Horror 12.2%
- #37 Fractal Odyssey
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Golden Thread
Windows
Fractal Odyssey is a tactical RPG about forging freedom. Guide a party of rebels to slay a dragon god and topple a tyrannical Decree. They will cross frozen wastes, enter ephemeral dreams, and face unbreakable foes. They will fall, and they will die. You must carve their future.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 18.5%, Dark Fantasy 18%, Turn-Based Combat 15.9%, Turn-Based Tactics 15.5%, JRPG 8.1%
- #38 Parting Shadows
73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Blake WunderlePub: Wunderelf Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
A narrative RPG where every choice reshapes the story. Build your party from 56 unique classes, fight through three branching tales of mystery and betrayal, and discover that some paths can't be retraced.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 23.2%, Turn-Based Combat 18.9%, Dark Fantasy 15.2%, RPG 10.4%, Story Rich 8.2%
- #39 Nimaat
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RaObscura
Windows
Face corrupted gods, survive brutal combat, and shape Nimaat’s fate in a world where faith itself has turned hostile in this dark psychological turn-based RPG set in a fractured vision of ancient Egypt.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 22.1%, Dark Fantasy 20%, RPG 16.1%, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Horror 10.1%
- #40 Crimson Night
71% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: Bosko Productions
Windows
Crimson Night is a challenging turn-based combat game that blends unforgiving battles with world exploration and character progression/building. You'll learn through trial and error, die often, adapt your tactics, and keep pushing forward!
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 23.6%, JRPG 18.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 16.7%, Dark Fantasy 14.6%, RPG 10.8%
- #41 Dead of Darkness
71% matchVery Positive87% of 211 reviews2025
Dev: Retrofiction Games
Windows
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.5%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Horror 12.6%, Psychological Horror 9.8%, Story Rich 8.5%
- #42 The Sleep Experiment
73% matchMostly Negative26% of 19 reviews2023
Dev: ClawsDev
Windows · Mac
Experience the horrors of one of the most infamous experiments that ever took place. As a test subject in a top-secret Soviet research facility, you must endure days without sleep while facing unimaginable terrors that lurk in the shadow.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.4%, Survival Horror 17.7%, Horror 15.4%, Psychological Horror 13.1%, Dark 12.7%
- #43 First Light
72% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Mage's Hat
Windows
After a decade of living in the dark, away from the world. Bahar, and his wife Guidry, believe the Plague has ceased to be and are on the pursuit of a way out, a way back to the world they once knew.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 23.4%, JRPG 18.7%, RPG 16.6%, Dark Fantasy 12.5%, Dark 7.9%
- #44 Cradle of Nightmare : Flowers to you
70% matchVery Positive93% of 662 reviews2025
Dev: 红锈雨
Windows
Cradle of Nightmare: Flowers to You is an adventure game featuring a turn-based ATB system. Step into the shoes of Yue Qing, an ordinary high schooler thrust into a world of darkness as an otherworldly force tears reality asunder. Navigate a ruined world and end the filth festering within humanity.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 21.3%, Dark Fantasy 20%, Dark 12.4%, JRPG 12.4%, Turn-Based Tactics 12.1%
- #45 Dezlooca Anthology - Retro Rpg: Rise of the One Winged Phoenix
74% matchNo user reviews2022
Dev: DezloocaPub: Cannibal Krew Entertainment
Windows
Full length over 8 hours of story! Explore 4 different themed worlds and help Dezlooca, Archaic, Savage & Meeka save the earth from total annihilation at the hands of Malik.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 20.7%, Turn-Based Combat 16.3%, JRPG 15.4%, Dark Fantasy 12.9%, RPG 8.7%
- #46 Evil Origin
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kevin Musto
Windows
Evil Origin is a dark fantasy, gothic horror JRPG with blood pumping turn-based combat.
Why similar: JRPG 25.7%, RPG 19%, Turn-Based Combat 16.1%, Dark Fantasy 15.2%, Horror 14.5%
- #47 Remnants Of The Witch
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Daniel Freitas
Windows
Follow the story of Mari, as she becomes a witch hunter and discovers what's really going on in Sthalgrave city. Use various skills in the fast-paced turn-based battles! Use free time after missions to hang out with teammates!
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 21.6%, Turn-Based Combat 19.4%, JRPG 17.6%, RPG 9.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%
- #48 Alder's Blood: Definitive Edition
72% matchMixed62% of 258 reviews2020
Dev: Shockwork GamesPub: No Gravity Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Alder's Blood is a tactical strategy game with stealth-based combat, RPG elements, crafting, resources gathering, and management, exploration, and a rich storyline. Set in a grim world, where mankind killed their God and is facing extinction.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.7%, Dark Fantasy 15.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 14.1%, Turn-Based Combat 13.2%, Horror 9.2%
- #49 Call of Cthulhu®
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 13,561 reviews2018
Dev: Cyanide StudioPub: Focus Entertainment
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 48.4%, Horror 14.5%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Story Rich 7.4%, Atmospheric 5.7%
- #50 Book of Abominations
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Catloaf
Windows
Book of Abominations is a cosy Lovecraftian monster tamer that combines the cute with the grotesque. Capture and battle Eldritch horrors in snappy turn based combat, explore a mysterious, moody yet vibrant world, and unravel the secrets within the book!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29%, Party-Based RPG 17.8%, Turn-Based Combat 17.1%, JRPG 15.6%, RPG 7.3%
- #51 Roots Devour
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 544 reviews2026
Dev: Rewinding GamesPub: GCORES PUBLISHING
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Extend your roots, imbibe fresh blood, and expand without end. Roots Devour is a strategic exploration game centered around a card-connecting mechanism. Drive your frenzied roots through swamps and over frozen mountains, invading human cities until the darkness... descends.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.5%, Horror 12%, Survival Horror 11.2%, Dark 10.6%, Psychological Horror 9.7%
- #52 Ritual Tides
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vertpaint
Windows
Ritual Tides is a single-player, narrative-driven first-person psychological horror game set on the isolated British island of Hortus. Explore the island, uncover its dark past, loot food, ammunition and supplies, evade the cult of the Fallow Parish, and survive Lovecraftian horrors.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.9%, Survival Horror 17%, Horror 16.5%, Psychological Horror 13%, Atmospheric 6.6%
- #53 Dead Dragons
69% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: MAGITECPub: KEMCO
Windows
Who will survive—dragons or humans?
Why similar: JRPG 22.9%, Turn-Based Combat 22.3%, Turn-Based Tactics 19.1%, RPG 16.4%, Dark Fantasy 10.1%
- #54 WORLD OF HORROR
67% matchVery Positive90% of 9,764 reviews2023
Dev: panstaszPub: Ysbryd Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 7.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the quiet terror of this 1-bit love letter to Junji Ito and H.P. Lovecraft. Navigate a hellish roguelite reality with turn-based combat and unforgiving choices. Experiment with your deck of event cards to discover new forms of cosmic horror in every playthrough. The inevitable awaits...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.9%, Horror 15.4%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Turn-Based Combat 13.2%, Psychological Horror 9.9%
- #55 SANDS OF SODIS
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PAYLHORSE
Windows
A dark fantasy IP-combat JRPG: open and intricate map exploration, nuanced character interaction and experimental card-based mechanics. A game not meant to be beheld.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 18.3%, Lovecraftian 16.5%, JRPG 13.9%, Dark Fantasy 13.6%, Turn-Based Tactics 13.6%
- #56 Twin Gods
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Dragon Labs LLC
Windows
The Twin Gods is a turn-based JRPG where you play as a teenager, who's bad at magic, trying to find his missing father, Battle a confused turtle, fend off the town bully, socket shards into your gear, and combos abilities to smash enemies, which includes an angry god currently destroying the world.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 24.9%, Turn-Based Combat 20.4%, JRPG 20%, RPG 17.6%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #57 INANIMA
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Obscure Tales
Windows · Linux
A survival horror game set in the isolated facilities of a strange corporation. Search for limited supplies, and fight terrifying creatures to reveal the truth behind the Lazarus project. Be part of something that will change the future of humanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.3%, Survival Horror 15.9%, Horror 10.4%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Story Rich 7.3%
- #58 Children´s Fear
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bloody GameworksPub: GRUPO SAMDEL SA DE CV
Windows
Children's Fear is a turn-based RPG with horror elements where you will meet Zala, Luka, and Darko. After a series of events, they find themselves trapped in a journey where they must eliminate the darkness that stalks them in order to regain the life they had before arriving in the Paura Valley.
Why similar: Turn-Based Combat 15.3%, Horror 15%, Psychological Horror 14.9%, Party-Based RPG 14.4%, RPG 14.1%
- #59 Mythic Mire
66% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2025
Dev: resnijars
Windows · Mac · Linux
A surreal RPG-adventure set in a world between dreams and nightmares. Explore strange environments with your trusty digital Pixie companions.
Why similar: Party-Based RPG 21.6%, Turn-Based Combat 18.1%, Dark Fantasy 17.2%, JRPG 9.7%, RPG 7.8%